Perception of synthetic vowel exemplars of 4 year old children and estimation of their corresponding vocal tract shapes

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 120, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 2850-2858

  McGowan, Richard S ^a  

^a CReSS LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SENSORY PERCEPTION; SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

FORMANT SCALINGS; SYNTHETIC VOWELS; VOCAL TRACT SHAPES;

SPEECH ANALYSIS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY SYSTEM; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HUMAN; MALE; PERCEPTION; PHARYNX; PHONATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; VOCAL CORD; VOWEL;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ALGORITHMS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LARYNX; MALE; PHONATION; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; VOCAL CORDS;

EID: 33750323293     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2345833     Document Type: Article

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